Shakespeare's magical music box: the sound of rapture at the Globe
Exquisite harmonies, by candlelight, transported audiences in 1600s London out of filthy streets into a gilded world of kings and star-cross'd lovers. Composer-director Claire van Kampen explains why music was key to the Bard's successOne thousand people are crammed together in a pit under an open sky. They have been standing for several hours. Some have travelled a great distance to get here, by river, by road and o…